TY  - JOUR
T1  - UNderestimating the value of reassurance
AU  - Detsky AS
Y1  - 2012/03/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.235
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1035
EP  - 1036
VL  - 307
IS  - 10
N2  - 
Birthdays that end in zero provoke reflection on past achievements and future plans. And as the decades advance, one's health and mortality come into focus. When I turned 50, I wrote about my personal experience with screening colonoscopy.1 This year, as I turned 60, the Canadian news was dominated by the death of a high-profile politician who had previously revealed that he had prostate cancer, ran a vigorous national election campaign in the spring of 2011, and then subsequently announced a temporary leave of absence due to the illness.2 At that time he appeared to have widespread metastatic disease and died a few weeks later. The thoughts of many Canadian men older than 50 years (including me) turned to their risks of having prostate cancer.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.235
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.235
ER  -